Note 21 — Chapter I
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Broadhead’s History of New York, Vol. II, 66. Governor Nicolls writes to Clarendon April 7, 1666: “My Lord, I have remitted for confirmation to his Royal Highness the present Lawes of this Colony collected out of the Lawes of the other Colonyes, onely with such alterations as may revive the memory of old England amongst us, ffor Democracy hath taken so deepe a roote in these parts, that ye very name of a Justice of the Peace is an abomination.” New York Historical Society Collections, 1869, p. 75.